Saturday, August 21, 2010

Mindy Zhang: Sappho's Lover

Your sexuality is the last weapon you own.You are wise, and you knowLess exposure means stronger killing power.Let those eager to unfold show the secrets of their lesser tricks.

You stand, but not as a pose, your skirt-hem not flaring, hair in a bun, eyes focused (yes, whoever watches you, you look back flat). You do not even need to compose poems. You are a poem.But those honey-skinned fresh souls, flying around,

with hungered eyes and lips, charming as yours, with bouncy desires and burgeoning thirst for knowledge resorting to no scheming, craftiness or worldly sophistication…I can always find excuses to pardon them.

You are beaming as before, with a smile barely perceptibleand jealousy tucked into the pleats of your dress or into your dewlaps.You do not toy with the trick of “-isms,” and yet you are still the born killer, leaving me terminally unrecoverable. March 2010

About the Poet: Mindy is an emigre poet and media worker living in LA, US. She has published two books of poems, and this poems is from her newest book coming from The New Continent Press.诗人简介： 明迪，移居美国的诗人、媒体工作者。这首诗取自她由美国新大陆诗社即将出版的诗集。

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Fan (family name), born in 1965 in China, currently in Singapore. There are in this blog: Classical Chinese Poems, Contemporary Chinese Poems, Sylvia Plath in English and Chinese, My own poems in two Languages.... All the translations are mine. My published poetry book Faltering Words contains my selected poem suites not in English.
在此博客上可读到：中国古典诗、中国当代诗、普拉斯诗歌原文和汉译、我自己的双语诗歌。这里的翻译都是我自己做的。除了翻译几本学术著作外，我还有英文学术论文出版于牛津大学；另外已出诗集《期期之言》（组诗选）。